The Plan on Revitalizing China's Traditional Crafts aims to inject momentum¹ into the protection of Chinese culture and heritage.

《中国传统工艺振兴计划》旨在为保护中国文化和遗产注入动力。

 

It calls for better management of the industry and increased market competitiveness, with substantial improvements to be made by 2020.

该计划提出，到2020年，传统工艺行业的管理水平和市场竞争力有明显提升。

 

该计划所称传统工艺（traditional crafts），是指具有历史传承和民族或地域特色（crafts of historic legacy² with ethnical or regional characteristics）、与日常生活联系紧密（closely connected to daily life）、主要使用手工劳动的制作工艺及相关产品（crafts and products mainly achieved through manual work），是创造性的手工劳动和因材施艺的个性化制作，具有工业化生产不能替代（cannot be replaced by industrial production）的特性。